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SOCIETY
FOR FRENCH STUDIES
52nd
Annual Conference - Queen Mary, University of London
4 – 6 July 2011
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Plenary
Speakers
The
Society for French Studies is delighted to announce its four Plenary
Speakers for the 2011 Annual Conference to be held at Queen Mary,
University of London, 4-6 July 2011.
Marie
Darrieussecq, the acclaimed novelist, is the author of
Truismes (POL, 1996), Naissance des fantômes
(1998) Le Mal de mer (1999), Bref séjour chez
les vivants (2000), Le Bébé (2001),
White (2003), Le Pays (2005), Tom est mort
(2007), Précisions
sur les vagues (1999 / 2008), Le
Musée de la mer
(2009) and Rapport
de police (2010). She has been nominated for the Prix
Goncourt and the Prix Fémina. She writes on contemporary
artists for exhibitions and art reviews. She is also a practising
psychoanalyst.
Richard Parish is Professor of French at the University
of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine’s College. He has published
extensively on seventeenth-century neo-classical theatre (Racine,
Molière) and on Catholic writing in the same period (Pascal,
Bossuet). Among his major monograph publications are Pascal’s
Lettres Provinciales: A Study in Polemic (Clarendon Press,
1989); Racine: the limits of tragedy (PFSCL (Biblio-17),
1993); “Christianity is strange”: Catholic particularity
in seventeenth-century French writing (Oxford University Press,
forthcoming).
Anne Simon is a researcher at the CNRS (CRAL-EHESS)
and the Director of the Research Project ‘Animots’.
Her key specialisms are the representation of the body and the theme
of animality in contemporary French and Francophone narrative. She
has published Proust ou le réel retrouvé (PUF,
2000; new edition Champion, 2010) and À leur corps défendant
: les femmes à l’épreuve du nouvel ordre moral
(with Christine Détrez; Seuil, 2006). She has co-edited various
collective publications, including Nomadismes des romancières
contemporaines de langue française (with Audrey Lasserre;
PENS, 2008).
Richard Terdiman is Professor of literature and
the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa
Cruz. He is the author of Discourse/Counter-Discourse: Theory
and Practice of Symbolic Resistance in Nineteenth-Century France,
Cornell University Press (1990); Present Past: Modernity and
the Memory Crisis; Cornell University Press (1993); Body
and Story: The Ethics and Practice of Theoretical Conflict,
Johns Hopkins University Press (2005). He has two books in progress,
Taking Time: Modernity, Temporality, and Theory, and Rethinking
the Global: Globalization and its Discontents.
Previous
Conferences
University of Swansea 5th to 7th July 2010 - Programme
University of Oxford, 29th June – 1st July 2009
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University
of Liverpool 30 June - 2 July 2008.
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click here
for the Conference Pages
Birmingham
2-4 July 2007
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for the programme.
St
Andrews 2006
For
details about the annual conference held at St Andrews University
in 2006 - click here
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